New Moon in Pisces: Perspective

Earth from space (and a neat essay)

New Moon in Pisces
March 11, 2013
1:51 pm EDT

Remember how I pledged not to use the word "intense" for a while? Well, I need it for Monday's New Moon in Pisces, which is, yes, intense.

The potential challenges of this much Pisces in the sky, accompanied by Mercury and Saturn retrogrades, include feeling lost in a fog, not knowing what's real, drifting, losing all sense of boundaries, spiritual emergency, falling into overwhelming emotion or addiction, feeling wounded and wounded again.

OK, that's what to look out for––those are the patterns, behaviors, complexes and whatever we intend to let go of during this New Moon.

Now let's go on to the completely amazing opportunities this Pisces rebirth can offer.

One of the first things to greet me this morning online was a post from Upworthy with a link to the trailer for a film called Continuum, about the Overview effect, or what happens to our brains when we see the Earth from space.

This 20-minute film clip features images and interviews with astronauts and philosophers and others about what it means to realize we live on Spaceship Earth, heartbreakingly beautiful, miraculously strong, and breathtakingly fragile.

When we really feel our way into that sense of the Earth as a living community within the huge community of space, we've achieved the perspective of the Pisces New Moon.

We're not alone. We never were.

This New Moon happens within a conclave of Piscean planets. The Sun and Moon are flanked by Mars and Venus. Mercury and Chiron are conjunct nearby, and Neptune rests in the Piscean doorway. ALL of the personal planets are in Pisces. Our focus is RIGHT THERE.

There are no oppositions at this New Moon. We are one Earth, one people, one cosmos.

There are some interesting squares: Jupiter in Gemini squares the Mercury–Chiron conjunction, pushing us to expand our thinking in healing ways. Look out the spaceship window, embrace the new perspective.

Vesta in Gemini, goddess of home and hearth, squares Venus in Pisces. Ceres in Gemini, fierce protective mother, squares the New Moon. The Earth is our Mother, they tell us. See how beautiful she is, how she nurtures and cares for us.

There are lovely flowing aspects: Saturn in Scorpio trines the Mercury–Chiron conjunction, as Pluto sextiles them both. When we really see how we're all together in this life, then transformation flows easily––we simply can't go back to seeing things the old way.

The North Node, our path in this life, sextiles the New Moon. We are offered rebirth, realignment, renewal.

There's a yod, a finger of fate, from Saturn and Pluto pointed at Jupiter: This is important, it says. There's a lot at stake here. How we think, how we feel, how we act all work together synergistically to co-create our experience of life. Pay attention!

Last but not least, Jupiter sextiles revolutionary Uranus is Aries: This New Moon opens the door to a time of change. Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus will soon leave Pisces for bright and passionate Aries. The Spring Equinox is coming.

New Moons are time to make wishes and set intentions. Check your birth chart. Where does 21 Pisces fall? Which planets and points will be touched? These will help you tailor your wishes to your circumstances.

For all of us, everywhere, I will be including wishes that we open our hearts. This life, this Earth, are precious gifts. At this Pisces New Moon, hands are reaching out to us in many dimensions to say, we're all in this together. This is a New Moon for compassion, and for awakening.